From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 10 06:07:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA24370 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 06:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from whome.planix.com (whome.planix.com [204.29.161.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA24361 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 06:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by whome.planix.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #38) id m0tlFxK-00075hC; Sat, 10 Feb 96 09:07 EST Received: by mail.kcis.com (KCIS.COM-5) id JAA02566; Sat Feb 10 09:07:37 1996 Organization: Kendall Communications & Information Services, Toronto, Canada Posted-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 09:07:37 -0500 (EST) Received-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 09:07:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 09:07:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry Kendall To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: POSIX 1003.1b compliance (timespec revisited) In-Reply-To: <199602100311.UAA13389@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I recently posted a note to this list about the FreeBSD definition of > > timespec and the fact that it does not comply with IEEE 1003.1b-1993. > > I noted that NetBSD was about to make the change. Well the NetBSD change > > has happened and has found its way to at least a mirror at this end of the > > earth. So how about making the change to FreeBSD too? > > These structures are everywhere. 8-(. > > Not to mention that "time" in kernel.h is referenced directly instead > of via a macro. 8-(. > > The cleanup on these things should probably wait until after David > Greenman integrates the Lite2 code. I think NetBSD did this some > time ago. > For those of us, myself included, what is this 'Lite2' code ?? Jerry